2 July 2018

Beyond barriers: how older people move between health and care in England

Beyond barriers: how older people move between health and care in England
CQC 2 July 2018
A review of local health and social care systems in 20 local authority areas found that 
  • while individual organisations intended to work together but mostly focused on their own goals. 
  • where there was good planning between services, the way services were funded did not support them to work together.
  • organisations managed performance against their own responsibilities rather than how this affected older people, collected information for their own purposes and planned their workforce in isolation to other services.
  • the regulatory framework focuses only on individual organisations.